Silksong real

If the AI bubble really is bursting, please take this lesson from it: Nothing marketed to you this relentlessly is ever worth it. If it was, they wouldn’t need to beg you.

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It might be good to include these talking points when you call Visa/Mastercard. "So you support Roblox, a website/app known to endanger children, but you refuse to support legal adult content? What kind of message are you sending to customers?"

this just in: im an abusive gamedev for (checks notes) making you feel things

buy my emotionally abusive game, it's 30% off right now! store.steampowered.com/app/1677310/...

If you think the process of making art is agonizing, either try a different medium or realize you're not a creator. It's ok. Artists like the process. Otherwise, we wouldn't do it. At the very least, get the rubber out of your mouth. You're only giving these AI companies the distraction to succeed.

just saw someone sincerely arguing that they need AI bc they don't have "natural" artistic talent and idk how to make you understand that nobody comes by this shit naturally. it's just...work. it's being bad at it for a really, really, really long time. it's intention, pursued over time! wtf!!!

I drew this on my lunch break your excuses are fucking pathetic

Shirya! Finally not drawn nervous for once! [ #oc #ocsky ]

Shirya! Finally not drawn nervous for once! [ #oc #ocsky ]

Oh my god what a resource

IF YOU HAVE A PATREON PAGE PLEASE FILL OUT THIS SURVEY ASKING THEM NOT TO ADD AI TO THE PLATFORM

SPEAK UP!!! WE DON'T NEED ANOTHER FRICKIN SOCIAL TO NUKE NSFW CONTENT ONCE THEY GOT ENOUGH USERS! CENSORSHIP ALWAYS LEAD TO BANNING QUEER, BPOC, DISABLED PPL IMPORTANT CONTENT NEXT!

It's happening. Please call your reps and yell about SCREEN, KOSA, and IODA

Definitely don't do this.

Friends (esp if you live in CA) we REALLY need signatures on this petition supporting Bill AB412 - the AI Copyright Transparency Act. TLDR = this will require AI corps to be transparent about what is in their datasets! Signing takes 1 min. Once you sign, PLEASE SHARE!! tinyurl.com/4uxbp963

Regardless of how well or poorly you think Itch handled the situation that Stripe shoved onto them, keep the pressure on the payment processors. If you get completely fixated on Itch's missteps (and I think they made some real ones), then you're giving the actual source of the problem a free pass.

People should be pulling a PayPal on YouTube by contacting them for weeks on end as well as encouraging other content creators to speak to their reps Not "boycotting" for one day

No lie, this calling campaign is one of the most effective levers we have at the moment. If we sustain the campaign through the financial quarter we'll be sending a strong message that this administration is bad for business. Please continue making censorship unprofitable.

✨ HOW TO: support artists for $0.00 ✨ - leave a like! - repost their work - more eyes!! - comment on their posts! (an emoji goes a long way!) all of this means so much to artists and helps immensely!! just a reminder that support does NOT always have to be financial 🥰🤍✨

I went to a star wars con this past weekend and it was wonderful to see even a small section of what the actual fandom is like. Age ranges across the board, and even tho it did skew toward white men, I saw plenty of others there in different demographics. Star War is for everyone ♥️

The Octopath Traveler series has not sold badly. Octopath Traveler - 3-4m Octopath Traveler II - 1-2m The Octopath series sold over 5m copies. It's not at Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest or Kingdom Hearts level but dev costs aren't as high either.

So the other day I filled up a tire that was low on air. Today I found it at 17 psi. I'm sorry Anything helps, even a respect. ko-fi.com/silverkeyblade

Keep calling. This issue can't die. It starts with delisting games, but the likely goal is to enact a new morality police that can silence marginal groups and anyone who speaks out against the status quo. The payment processors are feeling the squeeze! Let your voice be heard!

something i tried today that seemed to get good mileage was using the "hey i saw this statement by Visa that said:-" as an opener, and then segueing it into "and i bring that up because i want to buy (mainstream thing that technically is against their content policy. ex: GoT)"

I've now learned of #InternationalWaddleDay today so take Waddle Bee! #Kirby #kirbyoc #oc #ocsky

Still taking these btw!

Mastercard has reached the stage of desperately trying to gag people for saying bad things about them WHAT WE'RE DOING IS WORKING

Wind Waker is the platonic ideal mix of the zelda formula and the newer style of BotW/TotK. I'm glad I only heard about the early hate second hand. Phenomenal game with so much charm and iconic music.

I was mad that it was as good as everyone said it was. I've yet to beat it after the Path of Pain made my hands explode a few years ago, but I'm still as excited as everyone else for Silksong.

A marvel of artisic endeavors. I've yet to actually beat it, but that doesn't mean I can't appreciate it for what it does!

The fighting game that made me "get" fighting games. Bridget and Slayer forever bby

I like it! I'm not sure where it lands in my list of games, but I don't regret playing in the slightest! We need more games like it. The ps2 era of smaller fun quirky games is an under-served genre.

My current favorite game of all time. One of if not the best use of the paper mario formula. (Currently actually doodling team snakemouth right this second.)

I need to kill some time! Why not?

Baby Abigail meme redraw

I think it needs to be pointed out as well that Visa is clearly losing money off these calls clogging their systems and still thought it was worth the money to re-train their employees/contractors. They're not scared enough to drop the issue altogether, people need to keep calling and snail-mailing.

I'm glad I'm not near fandom discourse anymore (at least greatly diminished), because I can freely enjoy female characters without people getting really sexist and double standards about it.

Visa is now actively shutting down calls regarding their censorship and prohibition of the sale of legal product. They clearly retrained their staff on how to deal with our calls. That doesn't happen unless there's critical mass. KEEP IT UP. They are trying to turf the calls as fast as they can.

RFK Jr. backs down all the time when he gets push back, so if anyone wants to call, here's the HHS number 1-877-696-6775. I'd also call your senators/reps as well.

Amnesia? In my pokemon mystery dungeon? More likely than you think. [ #pokemon #pmd #pokemonmysterydungeon #scolipede #carbink ]

So apparently, it may turn out that The Wizard of Oz at the Las Vegas Sphere wasn’t entirely made in AI and Google threw the VFX crew under the bus by claiming it was all done by artificial intelligence. If true, then fucking yikes.

Hey Americans, if this passes you'll be uploading your ID to every social media and website to access it.

Baby Abigail meme redraw

There's two kinds of AI enthusiasts in 2025: people selling AI, and people who aren't any good at anything. If you're good enough at something to see how badly AI does that thing, you can extrapolate from noticing that. But if you can't really create anything at all, you're Big AI's target market.

Remember if you're calling, a good way to 'refresh' the bit is to act like you just heard about this issue from this article.

“It’s just a tool! People used to hate on photoshop too.” Take away my photoshop, take away my tablets, I can still draw. Take away your plagiarism machine and what are you gonna do? Shout prompts at me?

I can't emphasize enough how much your direct action, calling these processors every day, has forced these statements and the news coverage to happen. It's so important that we keep going. We have been shown they can bleed so be like sharks. Keep up the pressure and more things will start cracking.

I found her gofundme! She's already raised 41.5k of her 45k goal for gas, vehicle maintenance, phone/internet costs (for posting the videos), food and supply drives for the community, and emergency funds in case she gets into legal trouble: